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GamingLogan Paul uses ChatGPT to pretend he likes Pokémon, turns out he’s just a tourist using the scene for money
With Pokémon Champions dropping in a month and Pokémon World Championship 2026 arriving in San Francisco this summer, the esports scene is definitely heating up. However, not everyone involved in the scene is actually competitive. There are also scalpers, who have driven the price of trading cards exponentially higher than they should be. Real fun when you’re trying to build a deck.
The most egregious scalper in the Pokémon scene is Logan Paul. During the pandemic, when children were forced to stay inside and watch YouTubers, Paul started opening Pokémon card packs. Not only did this bring a bunch of random kids into the hobby, but it also completely destroyed the market. Some of the inflation was due to hype surrounding the new trend, but some was because Paul would yell out random prices whenever he pulled a card, essentially making up astronomical values.
Paul started sporting jewelry with Pokémon cards and building a bit of a brand around his obnoxious tourism. Meanwhile, regions that used to have 400 to 500 competitors had skyrocketed to thousands of attendees, with many just there to buy overpriced cards. Prices online continued to go crazy.
Earlier this year, Paul sold his SA 10 Pikachu Illustrator card for a record-setting $16,492,000. The card, which he wore around his neck when he debuted in WrestleMania (another scene he hijacked), was originally purchased for around $5.28 million.
After destroying the Pokémon scene, especially the TGC, Paul decided to reply to a tweet on X (formerly Twitter) that exposed just how much he actually cares about Pokémon. Hint, he doesn’t.
“Gengar Is King”: Logan Paul’s ChatGPT Answer Fries Real Fans
When someone on X asked why every man seems to like Gengar, Paul had a pretty long answer. However, it was an answer pasted straight from ChatGPT, em dash and all.
“Gengar is the perfect Pokémon,” he started.
He then went into a long spiel about Gengar’s versatility and unpredictability, followed by his strong counters to being damaged, then mentioned Types of moves he is immune to.
“Beyond his obvious tactical advantages, Gengar’s aesthetic is big and menacing, but at the same time, virtually nonexistent — a ghost with a grin,” Paul “wrote” on X. “He’s dark purple, which represents luxury, power, wisdom, and… mystery.
“Gengar is shrouded in lore, rumored to be Clefable’s shadow. Nicknamed the “trickster entity,” his presence is marked by a sudden drop in temperature. He’s literally ‘chill af.’
“Oh, and the only way to get Gengar was with a link cable and a homie (through a trade). His evolution wasn’t possible through level grinding; only kinship could do it. Gengar is king.”
While this clearly sounds like AI just right away without needing to disect any specifics, it got even cringier when readers pointed out that Gengar has not been immune to Ground-type moves for the past decade or so. Others questioned the sentiment of Machamp being the strongest Pokémon.
Replied one hater: “You deadass just asked ChatGPT what the best Pokémon was and just copy pasted it for the tweet.”
Added another: Bro really asked ChatGPT to write an essay about Gengar, but make it all wrong.”
This was pretty much the sentiment shared across his thousands of replies. Added one more: “Casuals will say it’s AI because of the em dash. Real ones know it’s AI because no serious Gengar fan over the age of 10 runs Hypnosis/Dream Eater. It worked in the OG Gen 1 against NPCs. That’s it.”
Someone said it best: Paul just proved he is a Pokémon tourist. This makes it even worse that he has ravaged the market and made regionals unbearably packed. He doesn’t even care about Pokémon; he just wanted to profit from it when he saw the right opportunity.
Of course, that’s not against the law or something. But we can complain that it’s lame and cringe, alright?
